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  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • How Big Things Get Done

    The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

    “Why do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House.”—Financial Times“Entertaining . . . There are lessons here for managers of all stripes.”—The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower

    How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

    Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $3.99 USD

  • Straphanger

    Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

    by Taras Grescoe ...
    Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is often unflattering—a squalid last resort for those with one too many drunk-driving charges, too poor to afford ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies

    by Leslie Kern ...
    **Shortlisted for the Architectural Book of the YearHow gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it**What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern, author of the best selling ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Road Taken

    The History and Future of America's Infrastructure

    A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Economy of Cities

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Barrio America

    How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City

    The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flightThirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Practical ideas to provide affordable housing to more AmericansMuch ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation’s housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cities and the Wealth of Nations

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally-produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn

    Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York

    Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Crucible of Fire: Nineteenth-Century Urban Fires and the Making of the Modern Fire Service

    by Bruce Hensler ...
    Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created sweeping changes in the methods of constructing buildings, planning city streets, engineering ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • The Permaculture City

    Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience

    by Toby Hemenway ...
    Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities.The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan

    Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers

    When the 2011 municipal takeover in Flint, Michigan placed the city under state control, some supported the intervention while others saw it as an affront to democracy. Still others were ambivalent about what was supposed to be a temporary disruption. However, the city’s fiscal emergency soon became a public health emergency—the Flint Water Crisis—that captured international attention.But how did ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Fires

    How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New Yo rk City--and Determined the Future of Cities

    by Joe Flood ...
    New York City, 1968. The RAND Corporation had presented an alluring proposal to a city on the brink of economic collapse: Using RAND's computer models, which had been successfully implemented in high-level military operations, the city could save millions of dollars by establishing more efficient public services. The RAND boys were the best and brightest, and bore all the sheen of modern American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Smart Communities

    How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future

    Series series Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
    The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaborationBased on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic decision-making and outlines the key strategies used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities. ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

    How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

    Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it.In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    by Joel Garreau ...
    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

    by John King ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building.**Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World’s Fair postcards, nothing ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • City on the Line

    How Baltimore Transformed Its Budget to Beat the Great Recession and Deliver Outcomes

    by Andrew Kleine ...
    In City on the Line, former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job – deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars – hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore’s radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to a focus on outcomes like better schools, safer streets, and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Urban Jungle

    The History and Future of Nature in the City

    by Ben Wilson ...
    **In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior"Illuminating...Wilson leaves readers with hope about the future of efforts to preserve the ecosystems that surround us, as well as a new perspective that looks beyond the concrete and asphalt when walking along a city’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD